There is a difficult disparity between individuals and society. Society comprises individuals. If I can convince a few, and they a few, and so on, it doesn’t take a marketing genius to work out that, like Badger Badger Badger, you’ll soon have infected everyone.

It’s also true that individuals have a lot more power now. Complicated policies to reduce airport capacity and tax passengers (to pick an area almost at random) will take years to effect, but individuals can stop holidaying by plane now.

Plus what restlessboy said.

To shirk individual responsibility is irresponsible, but were I to claim that the World could be saved by it with government policy would be naïve. The truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between.

Really, I’m not effecting some grand scheme. My plan to save the World doesn’t revolve around Dan. I just think that to shrug off climate change like he did in the post above is a bit insidious and it makes me cross, hence I comment!

The other factor is that I want to know what exactly he disagrees on the basis of, in the hope that he is at least a reasonable barometer of popular opinion and such that I might prepare an argument which would convince other skeptics. So any info in that regard would be welcome. :)